breaks bread with Union Leader Cesar Chavez as Chavez ended a 23-day fast in support of non-violence in the strike against grape growers. (Getty Images) It might have been more than a half-century ...

Cesar Estrada Chavez was born in Yuma ... (N.F.W.A.). In 1965 Chavez and the N.F.W.A. initiated a California grape workers' strike backed by a national consumer boycott of California grapes.

Cesar Chavez, leader of the California grape pickers, thanked the American Jewish Congress today for its support of their two-year-old strike to demand recognition of their union by the growers.

There will be mail delivery because Cesar Chavez Day is a federal commemorative ... Chavez first gained prominence through a strike against table grape growers in the Kern County city of Delano ...

There will be mail delivery because Cesar ... A strike by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, a predominantly Filipino and AFL-CIO-sponsored labor organization, against table grape ...

Cesar Estrada Chavez was born in Yuma ... (N.F.W.A.). In 1965 Chavez and the N.F.W.A. initiated a California grape workers' strike backed by a national consumer boycott of California grapes.